Word: winked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once said: "As an American I naturally spend most of my time laughing." He also loved his life, which he summed up in a famous epitaph for himself: "If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thoughts to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl...
...December 2, 1952, it proposed that the Saturday curfew be raised to 11 p.m., and that afternoon hours on every week day start at 4 instead of 1 p.m. Officially, the Masters had no idea how the afternoon change had come about, but privately, they could be seen to wink at each other...
...Harrison, publisher of Wink and Flirt, switched on his TV set one day and found himself watching the hearings of the Kefauver anti-Crime Committee. "It was a great show--I sat through it to the end," he recalls. "And as I was watching, it dawned on me that this sort of 'inside stuff' was a lot better than cheesecake." Unwittingly, he had stumbled upon the basic formula for a new type of magazine...
...Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, with its far nobler picture of a man who had put aside ambition-even spiritual ambition-and found a faith so strong that he could joyfully accept death as its price: I have had a tremor of bliss, a wink of heaven, a whisper, And I would no longer be denied; all things Proceed to a joyful consummation...
Before any of his guests could wink a confident eye, Ike expressed some doubts that lay heavily on his mind. He is a man, the President said, who likes to see younger men brought to the forefront and given an opportunity in the top jobs, so that their vitality and ideas can be employed in solving the nation's problems. Then there was another consideration. No President in history, Ike said, had reached his 70th birthday in the White House. The presidency was a grueling job, he said; it worked a certain physical erosion...